Dear all, It looks like I misspelt the email address that I used to send the below email yesterday. Apologies. Thanks.

Sincerely, Xavier

Xavier Calvez ICANN ­ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

CFO Office: +1 (310) 301-5838 Cell: +1 (805) 312-0052 E-fax: +1 (310) 957-2348

12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536

On 7/17/13 9:17 AM, "Xavier J. Calvez" <xavier.calvez@icann.org> wrote:

While the Board has not yet approved the final FY14 budget, and we are still here in Durban, I wanted to give you preliminary information about the proposed resolution of the special budget requests that were made by your communities for the FY14 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014).

This year's decisions (currently recommendations to be made by the Staff to the Board (and awaiting Board final decision on 22 August) are based on the resources available and on an evaluation of where the requests are likely to fit into the existing organizational strategic and operational plans and what we know about the direction those efforts are taking. We would like to gather your comments on any of these recommendations by AUGUST 4TH and will send further instructions on how to provide/post such comments).

There were a total of 23 regular requests from the community (in addition to the 31 Fast track requests)

The recommendations Staff has made to the Board were based on a set of draft principles that we created to govern our assessments of the requests. We expect to create a public comment forum opportunity to give community members an opportunity to refine and improve them for FY15.

The recommendations for all the requests are set out in a document that has been posted on the Finance Wiki page ­ [https://community.icann.org/display/projfinadhocws/FY14+Regular+Track+Sum m a] . You will see that (1) some requests are granted directly; (2) some requests are not granted; (3) some requests are not granted, per se, but the resources are being made available through the core ICANN budget and managed by staff, and (4) in a few cases, new resources are being made available as part of experimental pilot programs that we will be creating to see if the activities are replicable, manageable and effective. In several cases there is an expectation that allocated funds will not be available for release until there is an agreed upon system (collaboratively developed by both staff and community) for measuring reviewing and assessing requests for consistency across the board. This has proved to be a challenging year as we changed the process to add the programs' data, but we are continuing to make progress and I appreciate the commitment and interest all of you have committed to this effort.

strategic and operational planning efforts will substantially reduce the As we go forward and improve our strategic and operational planning efforts, we expect the number of requests as resources and activities to become more consistently available in our annual operating plan and budget.

Thanks.

Sincerely, Xavier

Xavier Calvez ICANN ­ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

CFO Office: +1 (310) 301-5838 Cell: +1 (805) 312-0052 E-fax: +1 (310) 957-2348

12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536